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GEORGE W. REIGHTER, for four or five years a popular school teacher, and now a prosperous young farmer of South Middleton township, was born upon his father’s homestead, in Dickinson township, Feb. 22, 1873, son of W. R. Reighter. W. R. Reighter was born in the same township as his son, April 12, 1845, and until he was eighteen, years of age he attended school in his native township, but at that age, he went to his uncle in Indiana, and worked on a farm until 1869. He then came back to the homestead, and Dec. 14, 1871, married Sadie A. Widder, daughter of David and Catherine Widder. For the following five years, he and his wife lived on the homestead, and then moved to the McLaughlin farm, where they spent eleven years, in 1890, purchasing the old Sheaffer farm, two and one-half miles southwest of Carlisle. There Mr. Reighter died, Aug. 20, 1901. He came of a family as follows: Philip married Lizzie Bushman of Boiling Springs; Katie married John Sheaffer of Dickinson township; W. R., deceased; George W., died at the age of three years. The children born to W. R. Reighter and wife were: George W.; John M., born Sept. 19, 1874, graduated from the Shippensburg academy in 1894, and taught school for four terms, and is now at Harrisburg in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad; he married Estella Carpenter, Katie M., born Feb. 22, 1881, is at home with her mother in Carlisle. D. Harry was born June 26, 1885, and is now clerking in Horn’s drug store at Carlisle. W. R. Reighter was a stanch Democrat and always active in party work. He served efficiently in a number of township offices.

George W. Reighter was educated, like his father, in his native township, but unlike him had the advantage of a course at the Maytown High School, and later in the Shippensburg Normal School, from which institution he was graduated in 1895. He then engaged in teaching in South Middleton township. In 1897, he began farming on the Scoby farm, and in 1898, he purchased the farm, consisting of fifty-three acres, located two miles southwest from Carlisle. This property has been in possession of some member of the Scoby family since 1819. On Dec. 9, 1896, Mr. Reighter was married to Maude S. Scoby, daughter of John and Margaret Scoby. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Reighter: Esther M., born Oct. 21, 1897; William E., born Aug. 5, 1899; and Lulu, born Sept. 15, 1901. Mr. Reighter is a very enterprising, ambitious and public-spirited young man, a power in his community, and already successful in his work. He is well and very favorably known throughout Cumberland county, and with his charming wife has many friends. Like his honored father he is a loyal Democrat, and is much interested in his party’s welfare. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and are active in all good work.